I
use, and quote, Wikipedia, http://www.wikipedia.orgalmost exclusively as the source for more detailed information
on any area we have visited. I have modified what I found by reducing the
amount of information I found to fit the more limited space of our pages and/or
by using the more common American English spelling and non-metric measurements.
In doing this I have not modified the Wikipedia authors' information or
intent. I have removed individual links to other Wikipedia references from
copied articles for ease of reading.

Please follow up on any
information found on a visit's page
by going directly to Wikipedia for fully documented information.

I
have found Wikipedia to be perfect for efforts like this website and I intend to
continue to encourage all viewers to utilize his most valuable source of information.

Wikipedia
requires financial support as it is not a government but a public
sponsored entity. Please read the notice form Wikipedia below and contribute to
this precious resource.

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Why
your donation is needed:

Wikipedia
is non-profit, but it's the #5 website in the world -- serving 470 million
people every month with billions of page views.

We
work hard to keep our operation lean. Google might have close to a million
servers. Yahoo has something like 13,000 staff. We have 679 servers and 95
staff.

We
will never run ads. Commerce is fine. Advertising is not evil. But it
doesn't belong in Wikipedia.

If
everyone reading this made a small donation, we would only have to fundraise
for a few hours. Not everyone can or will donate, but each year just enough
people decide to give.

We
only raise what we need. When we've raised our budget, we stop fundraising
for the year.

This
year, please consider making a donation of $5, $20, $50 or whatever you can to
protect and sustain Wikipedia